Citizen Sarris, American Film Critic Essays in Honor of Andrew Sarris

by Levy, Emanuel; Scorsese, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780810838918
• ISBN10: 0810838915
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-22
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

This collection of essays pays tribute to film critic Andrew Sarris, the most influential film critic in American film history. The 38 essays assembled here and arranged according to major theme demonstrate the amazing impact Sarris has had on every aspect of the film world: fellow critics, filmmakers, readers, and American popular culture.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Personal Reflections
Confessions of a Cultist	p. 5
Life with Andrew ... and Film	p. 11
Scenes from a Friendship	p. 23
The Original, or Maybe the Third Guy Who Has Seen Every Movie of Any Consequence	p. 31
The Critic Who Reinvented My Career	p. 37
Leaving Las Vegas?	p. 41
Sarris's Magnum Opus--The Book That Shook the World
A New Powerful Way of Looking at Movies	p. 53
The Best $2.95 Investment in the World	p. 55
The Gallant Andrew Sarris	p. 57
The Critic Who Helped Teach Me to Think about Movies	p. 63
Ruined by a Book	p. 67
The American Cinema and the Critic Who Guided Me through It	p. 71
The Legacy of Auteurism	p. 77
Sarris and His Contemporaries
The Influential Film Historian	p. 95
Andrew	p. 97
Andrew Sarris and the New American Filmmakers: An Interview with Robert Benton	p. 101
Advantage, Andy	p. 111
On a Critic and Criticism	p. 123
Sarris and Film Studies
Confessions of a Sarrisite	p. 129
Andrew Sarris: Father of Film Study	p. 139
Dear Mr. Sarris	p. 145
Sixteen Fragments on Auteur Theory, or Sarris's Revenge	p. 151
Sarris the Provocative Critic
The Man Who Loved Women	p. 159
Sarris and the Search for Style	p. 165
An ABC of Reading Andrew Sarris	p. 175
The One Sarris Paragraph That Changed My Career	p. 185
Andrew Sarris Observes the Future	p. 189
Sarris the Career Maker
An Auteurist Adolescence	p. 197
My Own Private Shinbone	p. 205
I Was a Preteenage Auteurist	p. 211
Sarris and Paris	p. 217
Sarris the Creator of American Movie Culture
The Great Taste-Shaper	p. 229
Sarris, Kael, and American Movie Culture	p. 239
Circles, Squares, and Pink Triangles: Confessions of a Cultist	p. 255
Auteur Theory and Independent Cinema	p. 267
Sarris's Impact Overseas
The International Film Critic	p. 275
Auteurism in Canada	p. 277
Andrew Sarris and Romantic Rebellion	p. 281
Andrew Sarris's Select Bibliography	p. 285
Contributors' Biographies	p. 287
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